Sàbat Hill

Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Sàbat Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Сабат, ‘Halm Sàbat’ \'h&lm 'sa-bat\) is the ice-free hill rising to 151 m in Dospey Heights on the Ray Promontory of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Richards Cove to the west-northwest and Barclay Bay to the east.

The hill is named after the Catalan Francesc Sàbat who, together with Jorge Enrique, made the first ascent of the island’s summit Mount Friesland (1700 m) on 30 December 1991.

Location

Sàbat Hill is located at 62°34′59.8″S 61°08′18.0″W / 62.583278°S 61.138333°W / -62.583278; -61.138333Coordinates: 62°34′59.8″S 61°08′18.0″W / 62.583278°S 61.138333°W / -62.583278; -61.138333, which is 1.36 km north of Battenberg Hill, and 560 m southeast of Voyteh Point that is formed by an offshoot of the hill. Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian in 2010.

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References

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


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